Synthetic Cell Initiative - Tobias Erb on turning CO2 into valuable products

What if we could transform the harmful CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere into useful products? Plants can filter CO2 from the atmosphere very efficiently, but also very slowly. Using synthetic biology methods, Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology have constructed an artificial CO2-fixation cycle. This discovery of synthetic photosynthesis could become a solution for turning CO2 into products such as pharmaceuticals or biofuels.

The Synthetic Cell Initiative is a partnership of Delft University of Technology, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and University of Oxford. The initiative intends to offer researchers, companies and policymakers a platform to combine efforts to build cells from their basic parts.

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Maybe this is our last chance in the battle against climate change. There is already much, too much CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to decrease the CO2 level as fast as we can. Stopping emissions on the one hand and getting rid of the Gt CO2 that we added to the atmosphere.
Question: will it be possible to design artificial trees or at least artificial algae in the near future?